Per the Trust Lands memorandum and staff remarks: the lease gives Valar 'site control' so it can study the land and start permitting; before any earthwork it may survey the property, do geotechnical testing and cultural-resource inventories. Construction needs a Trust Lands-approved development plan, a reclamation and performance bond, and every federal, state and local permit, including a Carbon County conditional use permit (the land is zoned Mining and Grazing, where large industrial projects are a conditional use; that process requires notice, a public hearing and comment); water rights bought and moved through a Division of Water Rights change application (publicly advertised, open to protest); Utah DEQ water-discharge (UPDES) and air-quality permits with comment periods; and NRC licensing, which the memo calls a public process with Federal Register notice and hearings. Spent fuel may not be stored on trust land: Valar must first buy any part to be used for it. The land now carries easements for fiber-optic lines, a power line and a county road, a grazing permit (to be ended before construction) and a 160-acre Utah National Guard training lease.

• 8.20.2026 TLA Board Packet (Discussion Item 9A: SULA 2095 OBA, Board Meeting Discussion Memorandum) (Utah Trust Lands Administration (Utah Public Notice Website), 2026-08-20) primary government “The storage of any spent fuel is not allowed on TLA property”
• 2026-08-20 TLA Board of Trustees Meeting Audio Transcript (auto-generated) (Utah Trust Lands Administration (Utah Public Notice Website), 2026-08-20) primary government “they would be able to survey the property”